impacting affordability to connect the two of them. but the $13 million for affordable housing that would be provided -- is this sufficient to deal with the magnitude of the problem before us? those are the questions that i have. i remain open to supporting this measure, and i think it is important for this board, with the mayor, to speak with one voice and i look forward to that conversation between now and when this comes back to the board of supervisors. i am is still supportive of the measure that was introduced by supervisor of the los. i hope we get to a place where we can have some of these questions addressed and i can be supportive of a larger measure.

i look forward to hearing this from my colleagues. >> supervisor? >> i want to appreciate -- his remarks -- especially when we look at the changes in our economy and how these impact the communities. this is something that i was partnered with on the ground, organizing the community response to what was happening in the late 90's and early last decade. this was very powerful, and the changes that we see in this city demographics, and so many friends or families i know who have left the city, and gone to the east bay. this is something that we explored at the revenue coalition to report this measure. we affirmed that these are the conditions that many of us

experienced and are experiencing again, and we thought that also, we wanted to look at not just generating revenue, but also how we do the business tax structure, we would tax something different, with a much more progressive -- with the changes that we see in san francisco. we go into this eyes wide open. the supervisor does remind me about this -- there is a real estate transfer tax and i have this right down to the department of elections, i will be pulling that back. they had one measure going forward. i want to keep my commitment

with pulling my name back from the real-estate transfer tax, so that we can go forward with one measure this november. >> supervisor? >> thank you. i want to thank them for being able to work out a compromise, with one tax measure going to the ballot. i respect the views of supervisor campos, because it is important to ask questions but i want to stress -- and this is similar to the housing trust fund. everyone has a perspective and likes some things that others may not. this is tempting to stand on principle and say that you will go forward with what you want to do.

the mayor could put forward the revenue-neutral measure, avalos would have the revenue enhancement measure and we would have the transfer tax. they would take the parks fund down with them. what has happened here has been a very mature and collaborative process among leaders in this city to don't agree on everything and have some strong philosophical disagreements. there is a very strong measure, raising more revenue than some are comfortable with. but it gets the job done. i am a appreciative of this effort and what they have put into this. i look forward to supporting this.

i hope that the supervisor gets the answers to his questions and he supports this -- supports this as well. >> i want to say that my comments are not meant to take anything away from the work that has been done. and i don't think that whatever happens has to do with maturity. this is about the substance of what is before us. i look forward to this discussion, and again, i think that, to me, this is one of the most important matters that we will be deciding on. this is something we have spoken about for years, from the moment i was elected we were talking about the need for more revenue in the system. we want to make sure that we do this the right way. this is how i am trying to

approach this. >> unless there is further discussion, i think the order of motions is the motion to amend, and continue. supervisor avalos -- do we take this to ammend without this -- there is no public comment on this. we will have comment next week. with regards to item 21, is there a motion to table? is there a second? seconded by weiner. roll call vote. >> cohen? >> aye. >> ellsbernd? >> aye. kim? >> aye. mar? aye. olague? aye. weiner, aye. avalos, aye. campos, no.

president chu, aye. supervisor chiu, aye. 9 ayes, one no. >> with regard to item 20. because avalos made this, item 20 has to sit for a week. a hearing next week to be scheduled at 2:30. could i have a motion, by chu and avalos. motion to continue to july 31? can we do that without objection. it is continued. with that -- madam, clerk, the in memoriams? >> adjourned in emmory of the following individual, mr. patrick ryan. >> madam clerk, is there any more busineses? >> that concludes our business.

>> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. >> it was an exciting event for those who wanted some long needed improvements. >> they saw it and they took care of it. >> the project is expected to open in spring, 2013. for more on the playground, includud

supervisor campos: the morning,

everyone. welcome to the transportation authority meeting of july 24, 2012. i'm the chair the authority. the clerk of the authority is erica cheng. we would like to thank the sfgtv staff for covering the meeting today. if you could take roll-call. >> [roll-call] >> we have a quorum. >> if you could please call item no. 2. >> is there any member of the

public who would like to speak on item number two? can we take roll-call? >> [a roll-call] the item passes. supervisor campos: please call item no. 3. >> the shares report. this is an information item. supervisor campos: as many of you are aware, last week, our governor, jerry brown was in town for the bill that green light the high-speed rail program.

for those of you who have been following this matter, it was a very close vote and in the end, the different parties were able to reach a compromise that brought enough consensus to have enough votes to pass this very important piece of legislation. i was unable to be at the signing ceremony but i want to thank the executive director for representing the authority and i want to recognize commissioner jane kim who was at the event. present were not only the governor but the high-speed authority chairman who were clear about their commitment to bring high-speed rail to the trans bay transit center. i know that commissioner wiener and i have been working to make sure that happens. i also want to note that we have another piece of good news yesterday. we had the deputy administrator

for the federal transit administration who was in town to deliver good news for the municipal transportation agency. we are receiving to grants in san francisco -- one for $15 million for the replacement of 40 diesel buses with new hybrid electric load floor buses which is a very important step in the renovation of our fleet which is aging. another grant was also pretty significant -- $6 million to fund the service which is part of the rapid network and -- which is intended to improve service to many neighborhoods in the city. i know that in my neighborhood, that will be tremendously impacted by this investment. we want to thank all of the members of the family and our

gratitude goes to the transit administration for recognizing the significance of these projects in san francisco. that concludes my report. i would like to ask any commissioner who has a question or any member of the public would like to speak on this item to please come forward. i see a couple. you could please come up. you each have 03 minutes. >> good that afternoon. my name is mr. dillon and i have lived in this city for many years. i have enjoyed the streets of san francisco. what is most enjoyable about the streets of san francisco is being able to drive on them and to get from point a to point b without being in a traffic jam or having to deal with critical

mass or having to deal with construction projects. i have noticed an increasing amounts of traffic ingestion, areas where construction is going on in traffic is not being managed around those sites. i met one lady who was on her way to the hospital. she was trying to negotiate around a project and and at driving into the project. damaging her car. my point to the transportation authority is i don't think you are really doing your job. you need to think about the public residents and tourists in this city. that's your biggest priority.

to have all of these construction jobs going on at the same time has really reduced the quality of life in san francisco. secondly, we used to have a very nice system of traffic coming -- traffic calming done by local people who went into the city and drove their carriages. that was our traditional model. carriage horses are also solar powered. they eat grass that is powered by the sun and that propels them in their travel. i don't see any money in any of your budget or even in the $4 dmv tax increase that goes into

any of that. which to me is pretty shocking because who are we in san francisco? what type of community are we? historically, we are a carriage driving community. here we are since 2000, like we don't exist. yet you are spending all of this money -- [tone] supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker please. >> i listened to the director's report and i want to address two issues. the first issue is governor jerry brown signing this bill. you did not witness the signing of this bill on tv because you mentioned some persons who were

present but they were not. i can talk to you about that offline. the situation we have today, board of supervisors, commissioners, and you from the san francisco transportation authority, is that our state is broke. three in spite of our state being broke, no money for education, no money for health, nominee for safety, some folks because they have the power and jerry brown should know better, by a very close margin, millions of dollars have been allocated for the high-speed rail.

jerry brown said at one time when they decided to have the bart, the bay area rapid transit, some neighboring counties were against it. maybe they were against it and that is their concern. but we can make no comparison whatsoever in these dire economic times comparing the high-speed rail to the bart system. i just want to get that out there clear for those people who should learn to represent and be leaders. in the second issue is the moneys allocated to muni. every time we allocate moneys to muni, we have no accountability and no responsibility. if they get this grant, that is

fine, but we need muni to be accountable. [tone] we have a gentleman who used to be with muni and hopefully he will do the right thing. but again, to the high-speed rail, it's going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth and we really do not know the standard of that construction and how that will, around. thank you very much. supervisor campos: thank you very much. is there any other member of the public to would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. could you please call item no. 4? >> the executive director's report. >> good morning.

my report is on your desks and i have a few things i would like to highlight. we have already heard from the chairman on a high-speed rail bill signing and the visit of the deputy administrators, so i will skip over those. let me simply highlight in the interest of time i promised at the finance committee, a road map to the new federal highway transportation act which you can read at your leisure. if using a seven-page memo is long, think about a 650 page bill. this is a manageable about. in the interest of time, i will

not address that at all today and i will bring a short power point presentation to each of the committees at the next meeting so that you have a guided tour. there are some wrinkles in this bill that surprised me and some of the other observers that this process because i have been predicting there would not be a bill until after the election. there were some compromises that were necessary to get the bill passed and not all of them are to benefit san francisco. i will address them at the next pair of committee meetings in more detail. in the environmental impact report alternatives for the plan bay area were approved last thursday by the metropolitan commission and the association of bay area governments. these are key to the analysis that would be done and we are

generally supportive of the free market. it's never exactly ideal, but we will remain deeply engaged in the process. the final eir will be certified in may of 2013, so we have a little time still and we will remain very involved. i want to highlight 19th avenue transit steady which got some initial work underway already. this is a study that will explore moving the ocean view library line to the west side so that it can be more user friendly and more integrated into the land use fronting that area.

this is a fantastic opportunity that has come out of the planning proposal and it gives us an opportunity to focus on the west side of the city in a very significant way. i am hopeful this will be an important effort and expect meetings with the community to start in the fall. we are organizing the outreach and technical work now. the study that has been underway for a long time is now reaching its final stages and i wanted to report that we have been coordinating with the city and community's effort to restart the program of developing this site -- this has been really incomplete for some time now.

we have been working with the planning department to make sure they are integrated into land use that makes sense for the infrastructure investment. i am expecting at this point that i will bring a final report detailing the proposal to the board and for approval this fall. after the approval by this board, we have been gauged actively with the npa and we are collaborating with sorting out -- we have been in engage actively with the mta and are collaborating with sorting out the alternatives and it planned to conduct extensive outreach to stakeholders when the final analysis are completed.

that will happen with the final certification of the document. there is extensive information on our website about this. the central freeway circulation study has issued a draft final report. it's a very interesting study. i expect to bring it for approval in september. of course, it identifies a number of the shortcomings we knew we had to deal with after we put in place the beautiful urban design concept we had. we always knew there was going to be a follow-up on the traffic and circulation issues.

and other aspects of this study. we have had a significant amount of activity -- the bridge continues and we've had a significant amount of community input through outreach conducted by the authority's staff in april and we have found support for a future caltrans station and some corresponding concerns and we are working with the department and communities on that. there are some funding issues with keeping the street open because building a bridge there is more expensive but it's the appropriate thing to do.

we will have more details for you in september. the other thing that's happening in district 11 is the hunters point mobility study where we have a significant amount of activity. on august 21, the team will present at a meeting from 1:00 until 3:00 that i want to alert the community. this is at 1800's oakdale avenue and people are encouraged to attend. this would really leverage the resources that community already has in place. shared resources to really improve mobility in that area. we have a fairly extensive i am about the program allocations of proposition k.

i want to point out that the board appropriated debt total of $118 million in sales tax for transportation and there is also a comparison of the% allocated versus program and in terms of programmatic categories which are not huge projects, for things like traffic signals and so on, we have a 71% ratio and 29% has not come in for allocation. operations and maintenance has claimed everything allocated to it. there are some details in the report about which programs have had the most